The motto of this year’s IF forum is “60 years of German history”. We have already heard the speakers Dr. Heribert Prantl (60 years German constitution) and Dr. Wolfgang Herles (60 years Federal Republic of Germany). Now I can proudly announce Klaus Kastan as our next speaker.
On Thursday, November 12th, he will be our guest at the IF forum in our office building in Unterhaching.
He will talk about:
“60 Years of German-American Friendship – All Obama?”
I already look forward to his presentation!
Again, the presentation will be in the big seminar room on the third floor of the InterFace AG building (Unterhaching, Leipzigerstr. 16).
Please note that there is only a limited number of seats available in our seminar room. If you are interested, please send me an email –> IF-Blog.
The curriculum vitae of Klaus Kastan:
Klaus Kastan grew up in Vaterstetten near Munich. He made his first experiences as a local reporter for various dailies (regional editions of Süddeutsche Zeitung, Münchner Merkur and Fränkischer Tag, Bamberg) when he was still a student at school and later at university. As a practicing student, he started work for the Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1975. In those days, he was the youngest on the team of journalists at BR, but that has changed as the years went by …
For many years, he worked for all ARD radio stations, mostly on socio-political topics. He also acted as an anchorman in many programs. In 1980, he was awarded the Kurt-Magnus prize (this is a radio award donated by the ARD for innovative journalism).
Kastan became editor for the youth program of the BR (“Zündfunk”) in 1978, where he stayed for more than 10 years, before going to London as a foreign correspondent in 1989. Back in Munich, he developed the concept for the two-medium program “Das Tagesgespräch” (Radio/TV). He edited this program until 2006.
In 2001, he became program director of Bayern2 and successfully reformed the upscale cultural and political radio wave of the Bayerischen Rundfunk – which had started to get a little out-of-date. On top of this, Kastan presented the TV program “alpha-forum” and taught at the German School of Journalism (DJS) and the Bavarian Press Academy.
Taking his family (wife and two sons) along, he went to the USA in 2006. To this day, he has been working in Washington as foreign correspondent and director of the foreign studios of several ARD stations.
I have personally known Klaus Kastan for some time. The reform of the second BR program, in particular, has made a huge impression on me.
We want the year 2010 to be the “Year of the Women” at “IF Forum”. Two ladies have already agreed to speak: Frau Gabriele Fischer, founder and chief editor of the economic magazine “Brandeins” and Frau Professor Dr. Kathrin Möslein (chair of Information Systems-I at the University of Erlangen-Nürberg FAU, Handelshochschule Leipzig HHL).
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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